About This Item


  • TitleNew Bibles
  • Call NumberCHUR_0360
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryYoung man adds stack of books to stack held by another; two young, shirtless men arrange bundles of paper in center background. Room here they work contains many bundles of paper. Caption: "New Bibles--In big printing plant at 117 Adams St., Witnesses pile high stacks of new Bibles, part of prodigious production of factory's presses and bindery."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Jul[y] 19, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWatchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York ; Jehovah's Witnesses ; Printing plants
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.